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Final Fantasy XIV |OT7| 1000 years DRAGONSONG War

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BadRNG

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For those of us who are planning to become Au Ra upon first login, I'd like to point out that despite Community Rep stating that you can use Au Ra from the early access, patch notes for 3.0 mention that you need Heavensward service account in order to do so. What this could mean is that EA access doesn't grant you the ability to change since if you apply EA but let it expire on 27th, you'll still be able to use ARR content, but what if you've fantasia'd by then? Would it lock your character until you apply full HW code then? It's not really such a big deal since you'll be able to apply full HW code starting 19th as well, the question is the timing of it all.

Oh and don't forget to disrobe.
I've never used fantasia, didn't angary say earlier in the thread you can pass on using it though? So worst case you just click to wait, can still use fantasia beforehand on the off chance the patch notes are wrong and early access is enough.
 

Kenai

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Oh it seems the Selene Esuna is aoe, which changes quite a lot. Thought it'd be kinda weak as a single Esuna since well you're trading the healing of the fairy for the Esuna, rather than your healing/DPSing for it which is an ok trade but not great, however as an aoe, it makes it quite valuable.

Dissipation is apparently 20%increased healing, not 50%. Lasts 30secs, 180secs cooldown, gives a full stack of aether, definitely don't feel it's worth it at all unless you really need the aether to spam lustrate or some such.

I can imagine it seeing some use if your fairy CDs and Lustrates are already blown. If Fey Wind is already popped that's a DPS increase since there's more stacks for Energy Drain and thus more MP for Broil too. It definitely feels niche but whatever.

I was also kinda hoping that Emergency Tactics would have been a short term stance change. A (long) CD that *only* converts one spell's shielding into extra healing is 100% meh.

The other stuff definitely makes up for it though.
 

Frumix

Suffering From Success
I've never used fantasia, didn't angary say earlier in the thread you can pass on using it though? So worst case you just click to wait, can still use fantasia beforehand on the off chance the patch notes are wrong and early access is enough.

That's correct about how fantasia is used normally. That's not the issue here.
 
Coming back to the game, I have a 50 monk/ 50 paladin on Mateus but was gonna try to get on Ultros and start fresh for the expansion.

Anyone know when I'll be able to make a character on Ultros?
 

BadRNG

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I was also kinda hoping that Emergency Tactics would have been a short term stance change. A (long) CD that *only* converts one spell's shielding into extra healing is 100% meh.
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They should make it a 100% crit, so you'd turn a 2k heal/2k shield into 6k heal. That would justify the cooldown imo.

That's correct about how fantasia is used normally. That's not the issue here.
Yeah, I completely misunderstood what you meant. I guess it's something to be wary of, but they must have a system in place for this kind of thing, as there are a lot of HW-only things you can unlock during the EA. Like what if you log off at level 51? Will it delevel you?
 
Coming back to the game, I have a 50 monk/ 50 paladin on Mateus but was gonna try to get on Ultros and start fresh for the expansion.

Anyone know when I'll be able to make a character on Ultros?

The only good time to make one before the expansion would be to wait until just before the maintenance today, so at like 11:30 PST, and even then it'll probably be blocked still. Once the expansion comes up, if you're quick maybe you might get one done right away, but after that it'll probably be locked the entire time for several days/weeks. You could server transfer your characters to Ultros which bypasses the char creation, but obviously this costs money.
 

Trojita

Rapid Response Threadmaker
I didn't get a chance to run the benchmark until now.

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Video was super smooth.

Wonder why the GTX 980 TI is only reporting 3GB of VRAM though? The game 32-bit only or something?
 

Sorian

Banned
I watched the launch trailer again and my half joke yesterday about who I think the warrior of darkness is going to be feels more right.
 
The only good time to make one before the expansion would be to wait until just before the maintenance today, so at like 11:30 PST, and even then it'll probably be blocked still. Once the expansion comes up, if you're quick maybe you might get one done right away, but after that it'll probably be locked the entire time for several days/weeks. You could server transfer your characters to Ultros which bypasses the char creation, but obviously this costs money.

Ill keep transferring in mind, luckily gonna go to the bar for a couple hours so ill be able to check around 11:30-midnight to see, before 2am for sure. Thank you!
 

BadRNG

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So did any other old skills get changed?
There is a list in the prelimnary patch notes, and not all of them have been leaked yet.

Here is what I think we know thus far:
Paladin
Riot Blade - ??
Shield Swipe - ??
Shield Oath - Accuracy added to stance

Warrior
Defiance - Accuracy added
Wrath - ??

Monk
Featherfoot - ??
Demolish - DOT Duration increased by 3s
Shoulder Tackle - ??, possibly cooldown increase

Dragoon
Heavy Thrust - ??
Life Surge - ??
Phlebotomize - ??

Ninja
Perfect Dodge - ??
Aeolian Edge - Must be behind rear for full potency

Bard
Mage's Ballad - ??
Barrage - ??
Army's Paeon - ??
Rain of Death - ??

Black Mage
Blizzard - ??
Fire - Increased potency by 10
Fire II - ??
Manawall - ??
Flare - Damage is reduced on second target by 10%, 3rd by 20%, 4th 30, 5th 40%, all others 50%

Summoner
Miasma - ??
Bane - ??
Miasma II - ??
Enkindle - Reduced cooldown
Mountain Buster
Flaming Crush
Radiant Shield - All three of these pet attacks are now elemental damage

White Mage
Stone - ??
Protect - Gives mdef base
Proshell - Replaced by quick stoneskin, unclear what that does, presumably lower cast or instant.
Stone II - ??
Presence of Mind - ??
Stoneskin - Possibly reduced to 10% HP shield for WHM, very unclear
Holy - Same change as Flare
Aero II - ??
Stoneskin II - Same as Stoneskin

Scholar
Lustrate - ??
Fey Light - Replaced by Fey Wind, granting Skill/Spell/Auto attack increase by 30% all at once for 30s
Fey Glow - Replaced by Fey Carress, casting aoe esuna with 60s cooldown
 

Kenai

Member
They should make it a 100% crit, so you'd turn a 2k heal/2k shield into 6k heal. That would justify the cooldown imo.

Yea that would be pretty good.

I don't mind it being boring (hi Eye for an Eye aoe), but it being boring and fairly useless is kinda disappointing. I was dreaming of like, a temp stance change after everyone is shielded to help with burst healing following a kaboom. Which would still be niche but would be useful in at least a good handful of situations. I am not even sure a CD like this belongs on my bar at all.

I'm not too worried about it per se since SE is actually somewhat decent with fixing useless skills (eventually), but I hope it happens before next expansion a la Tri Disaster.
 

Ken

Member
Huh, Warrior of Darkness isn't just going to be our evil clones?

I thought the "you and yours" implied they'll have a full party of Darkness versus our full party of Light.
 

Kenai

Member
Huh, Warrior of Darkness isn't just going to be our evil clones?

I thought the "you and yours" implied they'll have a full party of Darkness versus our full party of Light.

ERMAHGERD ARK ANGEL REDUX. That is something I actually wouldn't mind seeing copied from 11.

But I am gonna go with
whoever the new guy is from the empire as well. Or his butler/advisor if he has one
 

Ken

Member
ERMAHGERD ARK ANGEL REDUX. That is something I actually wouldn't mind seeing copied from 11.

But I am gonna go with
whoever the new guy is from the empire as well. Or his butler/advisor if he has one

I thought the Empire and Ascians were two separating things that didn't really interact with each other.

Also seems to be contradictory if they showed the new Empire guy in the trailer but then it's a black screen when they mention the WoD, which kind of implies a whole new character(s)?
 

BadRNG

Member
I don't think it will be the Emperor simply because I don't think he would help the Ascians, he seems to be on board the "primals are bad, beastmen are barbarians, and they must all be wiped out for the sake of the world" thing."

AKA GAIUS WAS RIGHT. DOWN, DOWN WITH EORZEA

Huh, Warrior of Darkness isn't just going to be our evil clones?

I thought the "you and yours" implied they'll have a full party of Darkness versus our full party of Light.
This would actually be pretty cool, all the cutscenes use alter images of your current party.
 

Kenai

Member
I thought the Empire and Ascians were two separating things that didn't really interact with each other.

Also seems to be contradictory if they showed the new Empire guy in the trailer but then it's a black screen when they mention the WoD, which kind of implies a whole new character(s)?

Well i doubt that everyone in the empire shares the same views on everything. It may even be partially why he rose to power in the first place.

We know so little about that place and even less following the invasion/apparent restructuring that it's pretty much a wild card atm.
 

BadRNG

Member
I highly doubt the person selected as WoD will have any say in the matter. Zodiark and the Ascians don't roll that way.
It seemed like they were talking to them directly in the trailer so I assumed WoD was working with them on purpose.

Ascians can already possess people, not sure what the point of the WoD would be if it was just that song and dance again. Someone who was actually chosen, and willingly serves Zodiark, would be a better counter balance to the WoL since we willingly serve Hydaelyn. Actually thinking about it, I could see it being something like
Estinien, who sees WoL's power and wants it for himself in order to eliminate the dragons. Deal with the devil sort of thing.

blood of the dragon is so underwhelming. what is even the point of that.
Uh, damage? What else would the point be.

The DRG changes are pretty damn nice, I am tempted to pick up the spear again as an alt since NIN's stuff looks so...stale? Not needing a perfect connection in order to dps would be nice too.
 

Ken

Member
Gonna make an Au ra. Anyone wanna explain to me in very simple terms how Fantasia works? T_T

You use it from your inventory. Take off all your armor. Log out.

When you try to log in next you'll be given the option to go back to character creation.
 

Hasemo

(;・∀・)ハッ?
New interview with Yoshida.

Interesting tidbits (might be old):
- ilv 130 equipment will last until level 53, after that we'll start getting better stuff.
- We'll only get poetics from using the roulette until level 59. The new tomes will become obtainable after reaching max level (probably non-news).
 
Uh, damage? What else would the point be.

The DRG changes are pretty damn nice, I am tempted to pick up the spear again as an alt since NIN's stuff looks so...stale? Not needing a perfect connection in order to dps would be nice too.

you basically get to use 1 combo and geirskogul and thats it if im reading everything right. thats not really what i expected. i really hope it doesn't work like the way im thinking it does or thats seriously underwhelming. maybe its a translation error?

about the only thing im excited for now is battle litany
 

BadRNG

Member
Gonna make an Au ra. Anyone wanna explain to me in very simple terms how Fantasia works? T_T
You click the thing.
It gets hot in there, so you take off all your clothes.
You log out
You log back in and change your appearance.
You save said appearance.

Is my understanding.
 

Ken

Member
New interview with Yoshida.

Interesting tidbits (might be old):
- ilv 130 equipment will last until level 53, after that we'll start getting better stuff.
- We'll only get poetics from using the roulette until level 59. The new tomes will become obtainable after reaching max level (probably non-news).

Both of those are old info.

Some nice YoshiP thinking pictures though lol.
 
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